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Tadao Sawai (沢井 忠夫, Sawai Tadao, 1938 – April 1, 1997) was a Japanese koto player and composer. He was renowned all over Japan for his skill at the koto and also received acclaim for his compositions.
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'koto music'), a kind of chamber music with the koto playing the leading part, but nowadays the part of the koto is more widely known than the original. The music is made from six columns, hence the name, and there are exactly fifty-two beats in each column, except for the first row, which has four beats more.
Kimio Eto (衛藤公雄, Etō Kimio) (surname Etō, born 28 September 1924 in Ōita – died 24 December 2012 [1]) was a blind Japanese musician who played the koto. He began musical training at the age of eight with the renowned master Michio Miyagi. When he was eleven, he composed his first work.
A FLAC file consists of the magic number fLaC, metadata, and encoded audio. [10] The encoded audio is divided into frames, each of which consists of a header, a data block, and a CRC16 checksum. Each frame is encoded independent of each other. A frame header begins with a sync word, used to identify the beginning of a valid frame.
In November 2015, Dario Marianelli was hired to score the film's music. [5] [6] The score had a cultural significance to feudal Japan, and to incorporate it, Marianelli used ethnic Japanese instruments such as shakuhachi, taiko and koto in addition to the shamisen (a Japanese stringed instrument, which is an integral part of the film's plot).
Michio Miyagi (宮城 道雄, Miyagi Michio, April 7, 1894 – June 25, 1956) was a Japanese musician, famous for his koto playing.. He was born in Kobe.He lost his sight in 1902, when he was 8 years old, and started his study in koto under the guidance of Nakajima Kengyo II, dedicating the rest of his life to the instrument.
The azumagoto or yamatogoto was called the wagon, the kin no koto was called the kin, and the sau no koto (sau being an older pronunciation of 箏) was called the sō or koto. The modern koto originates from the gakusō used in Japanese court music . It was a popular instrument among the wealthy; the instrument was considered a romantic one.